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Confused about custom roms

Firstly my Desire is from T-Mobile UK and am thinking of moving to a custom rom. Do I have to unlock the phone first before the rooting process? I am sure this has been covered many times so I am sorry in advance.

Ideally yes. Some radio updates can cause problems with branded phones, which then need to be unlocked.
Far safer, in my opinion, to get your unlock code beforehand, just in case it happens to you.
Regard,
Dave

+1 may as well have the unlock code just incase

Thanks for the advice, I thought it all sounded a bit too easy.
Thanks again.

I thought it was just those on orange that had the sim-lock problem after rooting?

htc-rocks said:
I thought it was just those on orange that had the sim-lock problem after rooting?
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After radio update, rooting has nothing to do with it.
Also, it happened to people on some other networks, check threads about rom 1.21 arrival

[Q] Hacking for noobs

Hi before i start hacking my HTC Mozart 7. I just have a few questions that hopefully u guys can answer for me:
Note: I am running NoDo already
1. Can WP7 be unlocked after updating NoDo? (since most ppl did it before updating)
2. Is it reversible after unlocking? (If i press reset phone, would i go back to factory setting?)
3. Would i void my warranty in any sort of way if i unlock it? (My device is unbranded)
4. Can i back up my original rom?
5. If i change to a different rom, can i still use the back up that came with each update?
6. Any other complications associated with unlocking or changing rom?
Thank you very much for answering these noobie questions!!! Really appreciate it!

1. No
2. Yes, i believe it will stay unlocked though
3. Not sure, most likely not as there are ways of doing it legit
4. Yes, through Zune before each update a restore point is made
5. No sure, i havent seen any custom roms yet so i dont know
6. Unlocking - No. Custom roms - no idea
Im not pro at this but i think this should at least give you an idea

What would happen if i unlock it now with NoDo?

I'm pretty sure the only way to unlock with NoDo is to do it legit through Microsoft and Im not even sure if they are doing it yet. I think if you had it previously unlocked then updated to NoDo it stays unlocked. Someone correct me if Im wrong

Barbbachello said:
I'm pretty sure the only way to unlock with NoDo is to do it legit through Microsoft and Im not even sure if they are doing it yet. I think if you had it previously unlocked then updated to NoDo it stays unlocked. Someone correct me if Im wrong
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It stays unlocked, it is dependent on the live id/account. If there are no changes, the dev unlock remains. I have just tested this.

Thanks for all the help...
So what if i unlock, update to NoDo then do a hard reset (factory), would i lose my unlock?
And if that happens, can i still go to my backup (with the NoDo update)? Then unlock again and update [email protected]@ Sounds like a never ending cycle

Downgrade HTC Mozart from NoDo

hi guys,
i dont want to have the nodo update but i updated is it possible to remove nodo after update? or downgrade or something like this... i have no unlock now and the games the market are tooooo expensive...
i need a good instruction for downgrading or how to remove the nodo. thx alot
i have a htc mozart without branding
greetings joop

try searching your device's thread on how to flash your phone with an earlier rom.

i looked in the device thread but i find nothing so i wanted so ask here

So you just have LEGALLY buy everything now then like everyone else... stop ripping app developers off. .
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App

HTCjoop said:
hi guys,
i dont want to have the nodo update but i updated is it possible to remove nodo after update? or downgrade or something like this... i have no unlock now and the games the market are tooooo expensive...
i need a good instruction for downgrading or how to remove the nodo. thx alot
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Step by step instructions for solving your problem:
1. Stop wasting time on this board
2. Apply for a part time job
3. Get job
4. Use cash from job to pay developers for their work

very useful posts - not.
i pay apps, but if apps have NO try version so i should pay 6 € for a app, that i dont know? not rly guys... or without unlock i cant use accent changer or something else. so please dont msg me with "get job" or something like that... very childish. u dont know me so u cant judge about me!

HTCjoop said:
very useful posts - not.
i pay apps, but if apps have NO try version so i should pay 6 € for a app, that i dont know? not rly guys... or without unlock i cant use accent changer or something else. so please dont msg me with "get job" or something like that... very childish. u dont know me so u cant judge about me!
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We don't know you, but we can judge you based off of your posts. If you are not willing to take a chance on a 6buck game, then don't.
But when you come on here advocating piracy, you will get flamed and possible banned. I wonder if you ever went back and bought any of those games after "trialing" them.... I bet not.
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I have a Italian htc mozart with nodo.
I would like to downgrade to unlock it
there is a method?

Hi,
I have a HTC Mozart from the German T-Mobile.
Because it took me to much time to wait for NoDo I flashed with a HTC debranded Rom and made the update to NoDo.
Now I would like to go back to the Build 7004 of the debranded Rom to make the unlock / jailbreak and later update to NoDo.
So I thougt I just flash the debranded Rom over my current NoDo Phone.
But everytime I flash it, there is still NoDo!!!
The Rom didn't had NoDo when I flashed it in the first place. It seems like flashing doesn't work or the Phone updates it self during the first start up.
I tried it more than one time.
Flashing back to the original T-Mobile Rom brings me back to Build 7004. But when I flash now the debrandet Rom it will be NoDo!
Anybody have an idea?

I have known enough of the HTC hardware architecture over the years to realize that re-imaging should be a no-brainer but also that the devil is in the partitions. However, for some unexplained reason, Mr. Watson's note/warning makes me wonder if reflashing will actually leave it just as new...
http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_...all-updated-windows-phones-are-not-alike.aspx
Are you flashing using all the nbh files (meaning, *all* partitions)? What tool are you using to flash? Maybe that scenario is what he describes in his post, where there are leftovers? {however should not apply if flashing} But, you say that using the original ROM does bring everything back to 7004. Odd indeed.
As a final note and taking a different approach, check http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=671743. He mentions that when dumping there is a bunch of unkown partitions. What if the update stored some update-related stuff, applicable only to the unbranded version (in other words, those alledged update bits being version specific)? Such a conspiracy theory would suit your scenario.

Hi fosormic,
thanks for your answer.
Maybe I can solve the problem flashing another Rom from this site. It really seems like there is a rest of the NoDo-Update on the Phone for the HTC Rom.
But even when I flash down to 7004 with the T-Mobile Rom the NoDo pieces will stay.
A friend using Android asked me if it's not possible to set an option to erase the whole phone before flashing. That could be an option but I'm not sure if it's available on Windows Phone.
OK, I will work with the T-Mobile Rom. Do you think it will work installing NoDo and later flash back to the 7004 Version?
Regards
Dennis

dennis_dieckmann said:
Hi fosormic,
thanks for your answer.
Maybe I can solve the problem flashing another Rom from this site. It really seems like there is a rest of the NoDo-Update on the Phone for the HTC Rom.
But even when I flash down to 7004 with the T-Mobile Rom the NoDo pieces will stay.
A friend using Android asked me if it's not possible to set an option to erase the whole phone before flashing. That could be an option but I'm not sure if it's available on Windows Phone.
OK, I will work with the T-Mobile Rom. Do you think it will work installing NoDo and later flash back to the 7004 Version?
Regards
Dennis
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Hi there, to be honest I have no clue. I suspect your friend is a Samsung user (I have 3 devices) and yes you can repartition a Samsung and very easily mess it up beyond almost almost any help. I have never seen a repartitionable HTC device but my knowledge at such low level is quite superficial. From the bootloader viewpoint they do seem almost identical (newer versions aside) to me.
Sorry not to be more helpful. It is more of an academic thing to me but I know it is a real deal to you
Best of luck mate,

[Q] When will we see ONE X “official firmware” that we can flash

Hi just wondering if anybody knows when we will see official firmware that we can play around with, and what is the process of flashing HTC phones, this being my first HTC, do they have simple programs like odin that I use with my gs2?

Your phone is already running "official firmware". As for flashing HTC phones, it's all done through the recovery menu. Things may be different for the One X as it's running Tegra 3 but as for now HTC phones do not have anything equivalent to ODIN.

Ok I see that method is fine, what I meant with “official firmware realises” is when will they be released so we can try different country’s/carriers firmware, for example on gs2’s you can get everything from the first realises of gingerbread to the latest ICS realises from all different country’s/carriers.

Not at present, no. We need S-OFF for that (the equivalent of fully unlocking the bootloader on a Samsung device)
At the moment we can go custom or use the ROM your phone came with

EddyOS said:
Not at present, no. We need S-OFF for that (the equivalent of fully unlocking the bootloader on a Samsung device)
At the moment we can go custom or use the ROM your phone came with
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Thanks thats the answer I was looking for, so do you know if htc plan on allowing it or do you know of anyone working to get around this issue.

droid_er said:
Thanks thats the answer I was looking for, so do you know if htc plan on allowing it or do you know of anyone working to get around this issue.
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they are working on it as we speaking. there is a thread in the general forum. Hopefully it will not be that long till we have the s-off.
Here you go http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1604300

awesome can't wait! and thanks guys for explaining it as I am a noob with htc devices.

droid_er said:
awesome can't wait! and thanks guys for explaining it as I am a noob with htc devices.
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haha no worries same here mate. still trying to get to grips with the whole rooting process and flashing stuff here..my advice is best to read the guides on each rom thread. and also the tutorials that are available...trust me they do come in handly

So I think my HTC One V is bricked, can someone help?

So, I previously had an optimus v, which is like the easiest phone to root and get roms for and what not. Well i was hoping that the One V would be the same, it was not.
So I tried to install some rom that i liked after going through the unlocking and rooting process,and it had a restarting problem where every 5-15 seconds after it would boot it would restart. I found a solution (kind of) to that but most of the links where dead so i had to find them on my own. It led me to putting a custom kernel on it and that did not fix it, so i saw something that getting the OTA update that came out a while ago could cause this, and the only way to return it was to use RUU (i still had a custom kernel at this point, i think) so i got the (hopefully) correct recovery.img from RUU and i flashed that and the next step is to relock the device, so i did via command prompt, and i started RUU up again and it was doing its thing and ended in an error 155. I have tried several times and it has still not worked. I found some stuff saying that the HBOOT i have which is 1.57 doesnt have a supported RUU or something to that effect ( i found lots of conflicting information).
So now i am stuck with a phone that only goes to the bootloader menu and because its relocked i cant flash anything to it.
I have tried fastboot oem unlock and that came up with a command error, and everything else i try to flash just fails.
Any help is welcome and a thank you in advance to anyone that helps.

matterlord1 said:
So, I previously had an optimus v, which is like the easiest phone to root and get roms for and what not. Well i was hoping that the One V would be the same, it was not.
So I tried to install some rom that i liked after going through the unlocking and rooting process,and it had a restarting problem where every 5-15 seconds after it would boot it would restart. I found a solution (kind of) to that but most of the links where dead so i had to find them on my own. It led me to putting a custom kernel on it and that did not fix it, so i saw something that getting the OTA update that came out a while ago could cause this, and the only way to return it was to use RUU (i still had a custom kernel at this point, i think) so i got the (hopefully) correct recovery.img from RUU and i flashed that and the next step is to relock the device, so i did via command prompt, and i started RUU up again and it was doing its thing and ended in an error 155. I have tried several times and it has still not worked. I found some stuff saying that the HBOOT i have which is 1.57 doesnt have a supported RUU or something to that effect ( i found lots of conflicting information).
So now i am stuck with a phone that only goes to the bootloader menu and because its relocked i cant flash anything to it.
I have tried fastboot oem unlock and that came up with a command error, and everything else i try to flash just fails.
Any help is welcome and a thank you in advance to anyone that helps.
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You should be able to flash a stock RUU for your device while it's in the bootloader menu from here:
http://androidfiles.org/ruu/?developer=Primo
make sure to download the correct RUU for your carrier/radio band and if its GSM (PRIMOU) or CDMA (PRIMOC), or you can screw it up more.
What network carrier are you with?
EDIT:, Just re-read your post, sorry. I don't know if anyone has posted a RUU for the updated radio, that Virgin Mobile released, you may need to get ahold of Football on this forum and see if he's still helping find/sell RUU's that you need.
Back in the day I had to get ahold of him to get the RUU for my phone that wasn't listed on any RUU site.

FreakyFreakGA said:
You should be able to flash a stock RUU for your device while it's in the bootloader menu from here:
make sure to download the correct RUU for your carrier/radio band and if its GSM (PRIMOU) or CDMA (PRIMOC), or you can screw it up more.
What network carrier are you with?
EDIT:, Just re-read your post, sorry. I don't know if anyone has posted a RUU for the updated radio, that Virgin Mobile released, you may need to get ahold of Football on this forum and see if he's still helping find/sell RUU's that you need.
Back in the day I had to get ahold of him to get the RUU for my phone that wasn't listed on any RUU site.
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I don't really know about buying RUU's, that's like blackberry with their pay to unlock the imei thing. although if it saves me from having to buy a new phone ill consider it.

matterlord1 said:
I don't really know about buying RUU's, that's like blackberry with their pay to unlock the imei thing. although if it saves me from having to buy a new phone ill consider it.
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I paid like $13 for mine, but it gave me piece of mind should the phone ever soft brick or hard brick with boot, that I can recover it and not lose a phone. I don't know if he's even around anymore, but I posted a thread in general asking if he was. I am on Alltel, but one of my family members bought an HTC One V with the updated radio, so for her I couldn't do anything but root. I know there are a few new radio friendly ROM's in the CDMA section of this forum that would of boot with a custom rom and the kernel.

FreakyFreakGA said:
I paid like $13 for mine, but it gave me piece of mind should the phone ever soft brick or hard brick with boot, that I can recover it and not lose a phone. I don't know if he's even around anymore, but I posted a thread in general asking if he was. I am on Alltel, but one of my family members bought an HTC One V with the updated radio, so for her I couldn't do anything but root. I know there are a few new radio friendly ROM's in the CDMA section of this forum that would of boot with a custom rom and the kernel.
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yeah i found some ROM's that will work only after this happened. In my research i found something about downgrading HBOOT i only saw it on other phones and it did not look like something i wanted to mess with. And my HTC One V is CDMA on Virgin Mobile.

matterlord1 said:
yeah i found some ROM's that will work only after this happened. In my research i found something about downgrading HBOOT i only saw it on other phones and it did not look like something i wanted to mess with. And my HTC One V is CDMA on Virgin Mobile.
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UPDATE: So i figured it out, I went and i reflashed the Unlock_code.bin file and now its back to unlocked again. Thanks to FreakyFreakGA to doing his best to help me out.

Be sure to flash an OTA-compatible ROM. Try RhythmicROM or CyanPrimo, both of which I've used for a long time and can attest that they are better HTC One V ROMs.

matterlord1 said:
UPDATE: So i figured it out, I went and i reflashed the Unlock_code.bin file and now its back to unlocked again. Thanks to FreakyFreakGA to doing his best to help me out.
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so matterlord what rom are you running right now? were you ever able to revert back to stock? I am having the same problem you did.

gotts101 said:
so matterlord what rom are you running right now? were you ever able to revert back to stock? I am having the same problem you did.
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I never tried to go back to stock, I'm running rhythmic ROM, can't link right now but it seems to work pretty well, its slightly faster than stock when all my stuff is on there and the only problem so far is sometimes when you lock the device and then quickly unlock it then it will freeze and restart.

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I never tried to go back to stock, I'm running rhythmic ROM, can't link right now but it seems to work pretty well, its slightly faster than stock when all my stuff is on there and the only problem so far is sometimes when you lock the device and then quickly unlock it then it will freeze and restart.
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Yeah I just flashed Rhythmic. Seems pretty nice by my wifi is having some weird authentication problem. It doesn't seem like there are very many ROMs out there that would work though.

gotts101 said:
Yeah I just flashed Rhythmic. Seems pretty nice by my wifi is having some weird authentication problem. It doesn't seem like there are very many ROMs out there that would work though.
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Yeah, make sure you find the right version for your radio, virgin mobile made a terrible move by updating it so you cant do much with it.
Or kernel or something, anyways mine was v5.2 and it was a pain, i think there was a lot more kernels available for older versions.
Best of luck, and if you are having problems with authentication then try using WPS, in some cases it fixes those types of problems.